Lara Chepenik, MD, PhD

Dr. Chepenik is a psychiatrist in the Crisis Intervention Unit, a specialty unit of the Emergency Department for patients with psychiatric disorders. Active research interests include topics in administrative psychiatry: their design, administration and analysis of performance metrics. Previous work focused on cognitive neuroscience approaches to Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder including use of neuroimaging techniques to map areas of affective and cognitive dysregulation associated with these disorders.